The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans cut this season’s spring herring quota for the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence almost in half — from approximately 9,000 tons in 2006 to 5,000 tons in 2007. What made the announcement more newsworthy than it might have been, however, was the fact that the DFO move was
Needed: Shore Base for Island Access
Merchant’s Landing at Spruce Head is for sale, and a woman who has used it for years to reach her island home is hoping there is some way to save the place so that fishermen and others have access to the sea. The 2.5-acre property, including a house and deep-water dock, is listed at $1.4
SBA Loans Available
“The U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is a little-known federal agency, the nation’s bank for business and homeowner disaster,” said SBA District Director Mary McAleney. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), she explained, is the national agency for roads, bridges, and temporary shelter. “It does the early mop-up of disasters and stabilizes communities,” she
Ozonated WaterThree Portland seafood processors swear by it, cutting chemical use
Nothing looks unusual about the three seafood processing plants located next to each other on the Portland waterfront, but they may be the only seafood producers north of Boston using a clean, green technology to make seafood safer. Their not-so-secret is ozonated water — a technology employed throughout the bottled water industry and used for
Sustainability
If one were to organize the bulk of this month’s stories in Working Waterfront around a single theme, it would be possible to do so around sustainability: the idea that if we humans are to keep going much longer on this planet, we must go about our business differently; that we can’t go on using
Lunch for Two, with Security Surcharge: $194
U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in May that Canadians — and Americans for that matter — had better get their passports if they want to continue crossing the border. Since my wife, Ravin, and I live in Eastport, we figured we’d better follow his advice, and we obtained application
Dire Situation
To the editor, At last WWF [June 2007] acknowledges the twinned crises of climate change and the end of Maine’s fisheries (“Houston, We Have a Problem”) with a twinge of optimism. I share the buoyant hope that we can solve these crises. But the “we” who can are clearly not the folks in charge. Even
Improper
To the editor, This letter is a strong protest against your article fronting the June issue of Working Waterfront (the Island Institute) on the subject of “child abuse.” This article is an exaggeration citing individual incidents with the implication that they are nearly the norm. It is in line with the “media feeding frenzy” on
New England is cool to area-based fisheries management
As New England groundfish managers grind slowly into the process of developing a 16th amendment to an already altered and not very successful groundfish management plan, there have been calls to look at very different alternative methods for rebuilding this most iconic and beleaguered of fisheries. The current system relies on limits on “Days at
Nuts and BoltsChebeague residents build a new town, almost from scratch
Ten town officials need to be elected, 31 town officials hired and approved and over 110 warrant articles voted on-and that’s just to get things started. On July 1 Chebeague Island becomes Maine’s newest town. No one on this island with a year-round population of 350 is moving anywhere, and yet their political future will